“Hello Goodbye” by The Beatles

"Hello Goodbye" came out in November 1967 as a stand-alone Beatles single, their first release after the death of manager Brian Epstein, with John Lennon's "I Am the Walrus" on the flip. Paul McCartney wrote it after aide Alistair Taylor asked how songs get written: sitting at a harmonium, he had Taylor call out the opposite of every word he said, and duality became the whole idea.

It's a bright, bouncing slice of pop with McCartney singing lead and playing bass, piano and congas, Lennon on Hammond organ and piano, George Harrison on guitar and tambourine, Ringo Starr on drums and maracas, and 2 violas sawing away underneath. George Martin produced, and the tag at the end was made up on the spot in the studio that October. It went to number one in Britain, America and around the globe, and it was Britain's Christmas number one.

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